Vancouver, British Columbia is a professional at playing American cities.
Vancouver, British Columbia is a professional at playing American cities. Charles Mudede

It is not at all surprising that Vancouver, Canada found itself playing an American city in Marco Rubio's campaign ad "Morning again in America." The city often plays American cities. It even plays Seattle more than Seattle plays itself.

In fact, Vancouver has not only been our city in TV programs like Dark Angel, but played, and still plays, the whole of the USA in the X-Files. But the mother of all roles that this city performed is the entire universe in the fantastic Syfy remix of Battlestar Galactica.

So, when Rubio's team needed a place to act like an American city, Vancouver naturally, effortlessly won that role. It's a master at it. And it also made perfect sense that the images of our cities are outsourced. This is to be expected in a globalized economy. Rubio is only telling us the truth of this fact through the many layers of his lies.